Hegel and the English Romantic Tradition [electronic resource] /
Deakin, W.author.
Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel's philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel's theory of recognition. Deakin critiques four canonical writers of the English Romantic tradition, Coleridge, Wordsworth, P.B. Shelley and Mary Shelley, arguing that they, as Hegel, are engaged in a struggle towards philosophical recognition.
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Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; A discrimination of criticisms ...; Why "philosophical romanticism"?; Romantic embodiment; Chapter breakdown; 1 Hegelian Romanticism and the Symbiotic Alterity of Receptivity and Autonomy; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Hegel's concept of recognition in an aesthetic light; 1.3 Hegel's response to romantic art; 1.4 Hegel and romantic metaphysics; 1.5 Hegel's Aesthetics in the modern context; 2 Philosophy, Theology and Intellectual Intuition in Coleridge's Poetics; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Coleridge's philosophical dichotomy
2.3 Coleridge's theological escape from aporia2.4 Symbol and allegory in Coleridge; 2.5 The deconstruction of allegory and symbol in "Kubla Khan"; 2.6 The antagonists of the imagination in "Kubla Khan"; 2.7 Coleridge's "unhappy consciousness" in "Frost at Midnight"; 2.8 The aporetic recognition through joy in "Dejection"; 2.9 Recognitive breakdown in "Constancy to an Ideal Object"; 3 Wordsworth's Metaphysical Equipoise; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Wordsworth and romantic metaphysics; 3.3 Wordsworth's ladder; 3.4 Dialectical criticism of Wordsworth; 3.5 Contingency and embodiment
3.6 Doubt and embodiment in "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798"3.7 "Home" at Grasmere: embodiment; 3.8 The unifying nature of the Wordsworthian symbol; 3.9 Conclusion; 4 Dialectical Collapse and Post-Romantic Recognition in Shelley; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Shelley's quest for the imagination upon Mont Blanc; 4.3 Visionary alienation in "Alastor"; 4.4 Eschatological projection in "Adonais"; 4.5 Wonder, transfiguration and irony in "The Triumph of Life"; 5 The Contingent Limits of Romantic Myth-Making; 5.1 Introduction
5.2 The romantic discourse of Wordsworth and Coleridge5.3 Shelley's second-order discourse; 5.4 Embodied scepticism: Frankenstein; 5.5 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel's philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel's theory of recognition. Deakin critiques four canonical writers of the English Romantic tradition, Coleridge, Wordsworth, P.B. Shelley and Mary Shelley, arguing that they, as Hegel, are engaged in a struggle towards philosophical recognition.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831
Poetry.
Aesthetics.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature, Modern—18th century.
British literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Aesthetics.
Literary Theory.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.